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Contents About the Author Preface: The Right Write Stuff Picture Gallery Section I: WHAT IS IT LIKE TO HAVE ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE? Jesus, Albert, Alzheimer's and Richard There Is No Such Thing as Alzheimer's Disease! What Is It Like to Live in Purgatory? What Is It Like to Have Alzheimer's Disease? They Are Glad They Caught It Early. Am I? The End of Act One... And Now, an Intermission of Indeterminate Length Cogito Ergo Sum My Last Six Words Back to the Future FAQs and FGAs Alzheimer's Disease, Suicide, and Death What Is It Like to Have Alzheimer's Disease-Three Years Later Four No Trump "We Have a Pill. Alzheimer's Can Be Treated!" Dreams, Drugs, Alzheimer's, and Me I Wish I Were a Nude Mouse "I Have Been Diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease" While Rome Burns... A Parable Trying to Figure It Out Checking Back in During the Intermission: What's It Like to Have Alzheimer's? Volcanoes, Fears, and Alzheimer's Disease Hemingway, Alzheimer, and Taylor Waiting for... Disabling Enablers I've Done That a Million Times Myself! Section II: FROM THE INSIDE OUT The Chase for Yesterday What's the Up Side to Having Alzheimer's Disease? Pride Precedes the Fall Safe and Sound... Unsound and Safe I Am a Verb Whatever Happened to Hope? Moving From Living with My Mind to Living in My Mind And the Name of the 3,000-Pound Elephant Is "Fear" It's On the Tip of My Tongue "I Can Read!" "I Can't." Singalong with Alois and Richard My Shirt is Broken Am I Half Empty or Half Full? The Flesh is Weak(er), but My Spirit Is (Still) Strong Will the Real Dr. Alzheimer Please Stand Up? "Alzheimer's Disease. Alzheimer's Disease. Alzheimer's Disease!" Am I My Brain? Or Is My Bran Me? Good Habits and Mindless Patterns You Sure Don't Talk Like You Have Alzheimer's (The Great Pretender) Knock, Knock What Will I Do Today? Drifting Away From My Head and Into My Heart Falling (title to come) Will the Real Richard Taylor Ever Reveal Himself to Me? Section III: FROM THE OUTSIDE IN Whose Fault Is It That I Don't Understand You? If It Talks Like an It and Gets Lost Like an It, Is It an It? A Stranger in a Strange Land Hello? I'm Still Here! Christina, Mrs. Hippopotamus, and Me Muddled Puddles A Distinction Without a Difference "Play It Again, Caregivers" My Champion or My Hero? Once Again, My Children Believe They Know More Than I Do Sex, Side Effects, Alzheimer's, and Intimacy Hanging On with My Tongue A Silent One-Sided Conversation with My Caregivers Religion, Spirituality, Alzheimer's, and Richard Plants as Pets "Give Me Your Money, Your Car, and ..." Oh My God! Where is Richard? This Little Light of Mine Am I to Be My Spouse's Son? Okay? Okay! Okay. Is It Okay to Say You Have a "Touch" of Alzheimer's? Here! Take This! What Is It Like Not to Have Alzheimer's Disease? There Is Something (More) Wrong with Dad Time to Clean Up Your Act "Don't Worry About Anything...We'll Take Care of It." Should We Do unto Others What We Perceive They Have Already Done unto Us? When Most All Has Been Said... Little Has Been Done Section IV: DEAR DOCTOR,... If I Were an M. Instead of a Ph. D. From My Heart to My M.D.'s Ears Do No Harm RICHARD'S APPENDIX The Dementia Action Agenda Taking Care of Your Favorite Organ Best Friends Act Up! Act Out! Act Now! Resources
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Taylor, RIchard, 1943- -- Mental health.
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Biography.